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Strew   /stru/   Listen
Strew

verb
(past & past part. strewed; past part. strewn; pres. part. strewing)
1.
Spread by scattering.  Synonym: straw.  "Strew toys all over the carpet"
2.
Cover; be dispersed over.



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"Strew" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruthless tread of passion marred the earth's fair surface? Were no goodly trees uptorn, or clinging vines wrenched from their support? Alas! was there ever a storm that did not leave some ruined hope behind? ever a storm that did not strew the sea with wrecks or mar the ...
— After the Storm • T. S. Arthur
... Maidens; strew for Gamelbar Roses down his way to war! Heave a handful, Fill the land full Of your gifts to Gamelbar! Dream of Gamel, Dance for Gamel, Dance in the ...
— Songs from Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... is in women! Some, like ministering angels, strew flowers and scatter blessings along the rugged paths of life; while others, by their malevolence and pride, increase its ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... magister; "for God's sake, no talking more, we have already lost ten seconds by that ghost. Now quick with the vinculum of the earthly creature! My Prince, strew the incense upon the burner; virgin, dip the swallow's feathers in the blood of the white dove, and streak my two lips with them. Now all be still if you value your life. Eternity is listening to us, and the whole apartment ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... the purple heather, Listening the silver music that rings out From the pale mountain bells, swayed by the wind. Or sit in rocky clefts above the sea, While one by one the evening stars shine forth Among the gathering clouds, that strew the heavens Like floating purple wreaths ...
— Poems • Frances Anne Butler


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